Saturday, March 19, 2016

Nuclear power

The article I read was about nuclear power and it was from nuclear-news.net. This article was very biased against nuclear power. It strongly condemned numerous practices of the nuclear industry such as secrecy about the full health effects and how nuclear waste would last for an extremely long time. The article was not addressed to any particular audience, just those interested in nuclear power. 
The article used a large amount of logos with numerous findings and quotes to condemn nuclear power. The article also used in pathos in regarding our society as one that does not care about future generations and would just leave them with nuclear waste that could possibly cause large amounts of cancer and other health problems. Other than citing sources the article did not do much to appeal to ethos. 
The article did have some rhetorical devices in it such as allusion with Macbeth and comparing how many supporters of nuclear power had a similar mind set to him in which they concentrate on just their own actions. It also had some rhetorical questions such as is nuclear energy evil and other such questions. It also has appeals to authority in order to gain more ethos.